George “Showboat” Fisher played professional baseball for 14 consecutive seasons from 1919 through 1933. In a 138-game, 4 year spin (1923-1932) as a major league player, he batted a hot .335 for the Washington Senators (1923-24), the St. Louis Cardinals (1930), and the St. Louis Browns (1932). Most of the upside, however, was attributable to a .374 batting average he posted in 92 games for the Cardinals in 1932. His other three more limited MLB stints sum up as: Poor 2- Mediocre 1.

Fisher was 1 for 2 with a double and a strike out in two plate appearances for the Cardinals in their losing World Series run against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1930.

Like other reasonably good players in the deep reserve clause era, Fisher played as well as he could for as long as he could, and he did manage to establish himself as a steady high .300 BA hitter in the minor leagues for most of his career.

Without people like George Fisher keeping the 1920s roar of baseball going through the heart of the country during the Great Depression Era of the1930s, some of the guys who now retire early from baseball on unfulfilled promise money would instead be still living in the real world of scrambling for rent money.

Share this:

Like this:

This entry was posted on September 16, 2017 at 1:51 am and is filed under Baseball. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “George “Showboat” Fisher: By Bill McCurdy”

BILL: –
As usual, you’re generally at the top of your game when it comes to
researching former players especially for the St. Louis Cardinals – when you look at the Rosters in those years – they (Cardinals) were a pretty solid group – thanks for most informative and colorful article. I will share it with Mary and Marshall, our house guests over this weekend.